About Creative QT

As parents of five, we live the daily struggle of ‘so much to do, so little time.’ The days are long, toys are strewn across the house, and someone always needs something. Chaos rules.

We know we’re not alone. Less than half of American families are eating dinner together three times per week. Many of us are rushing from one activity to another, juggling the never-ending and utterly exhausting to-do list that comes with raising a family. And we’re doing it while comparing real life to a picture-perfect Pinterest feed.

It can feel next to impossible to set everything aside and just be with our kids. Yet that is what they want most from us. Giving it is everything.

You already know that the time to be together is now. The days and years will pass, and other people and things will take center stage in your child’s life. Right now, though, you’re the star around which everything orbits.

Make Time Together is our simple reminder for families—you—that these golden moments are yours to seize. It’s spurred us to create practical yet inspired tools to help families have more of them together.

Through learning, storage, and organization-based kids toys, we help you spend less time managing stuff and more time making memories, engaging budding imaginations, and encouraging active independent play and a growing sense of responsibility. We help you control the chaos—and even look past it to embrace its creators.

Creative QT—which stands for Creative Quality Time—has been a labor of love. We’ve built these kids toy storage and organization products as parents, for parents—because we saw an opportunity and a need. Living in the trenches ourselves has sparked our product ideas for organizing and storing toy, stuffed animals, Legos, blocks, and more, because we thought of something to give parents the small wins that keep us going.

And, through Creative QT, we’ve made time together ourselves. Our little tribe has put the “family” in family brand: our children have starred in our promo videos, labeled the boxes, and sketched out next-gen ideas while together we built a business and a vision.

We certainly don’t have everything figured out—we share your messes, your struggles, and the overwhelm that comes with parenting. There are many days we come up short. But we’re finding ways to make time together, which is what we hope Creative QT helps you do more of, too. Our toy storage and organization products have worked for us, we hope they will be as helpful to you.

We're so glad you're here,

Adam & Dana Sue Hinkle

Built by parents for parents, Creative QT creates practical yet inspired toys to declutter homes, inspire creative play, and help families make time together.